How America's Obsession With Virginity Is Hurting Young Women
Women get raped because someone raped them
“Now, should we treat women as independent agents, responsible for themselves? Of course. But being responsible has nothing to do with being raped. Women don’t get raped because they were drinking or took drugs. Women do not get raped because they weren’t careful enough. Women get raped because someone raped them.” ― Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
Reading countless books, I often come across characters who have experienced traumatic events in their lives, perhaps where they have been sexually abused. This has sparked my interest in the subject and I wanted to find out how rape happens and why it happens. Since I read through articles …show more content…
Every year there are roughly 293,000 victims of sexual assault and this number increases as time goes by. Rape happens in every corner of the world and many live with the traumatic memories, unable to get rid of them. They remember the pain and some decide to either cut themselves, take drugs or they choose to commit suicide. And its not just women out there who get raped, boys do too. The percentage of women who have experienced an attempted or completed rape is 16 percent and the percentage of men who have experienced an attempted or completed rape is 3 percent, not zero. The lower percentage is perhaps because of men’s greater power to fight off the potential …show more content…
Victim blaming is exactly the reason why there are so many rapists out there who get away so easily with the crime they have committed. Women in India was raped and killed and all that was said was how it was their fault because of their revealing outfits and how they were out late at night. Blaming the victim will only release the man who committed the violence from the responsibility for what he has done. Other people may blame the victim so that they feel secure themselves: “She got raped because she walked alone after midnight. My daughter would never do that since her curfew is 9pm, so rape won’t happen to her.” Parents often say this in order to comfort themselves that their children will never become a victim of sexual abuse, but you may never know the real horror until it happens to one of your
“Now, should we treat women as independent agents, responsible for themselves? Of course. But being responsible has nothing to do with being raped. Women don’t get raped because they were drinking or took drugs. Women do not get raped because they weren’t careful enough. Women get raped because someone raped them.” ― Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
Reading countless books, I often come across characters who have experienced traumatic events in their lives, perhaps where they have been sexually abused. This has sparked my interest in the subject and I wanted to find out how rape happens and why it happens. Since I read through articles …show more content…
Every year there are roughly 293,000 victims of sexual assault and this number increases as time goes by. Rape happens in every corner of the world and many live with the traumatic memories, unable to get rid of them. They remember the pain and some decide to either cut themselves, take drugs or they choose to commit suicide. And its not just women out there who get raped, boys do too. The percentage of women who have experienced an attempted or completed rape is 16 percent and the percentage of men who have experienced an attempted or completed rape is 3 percent, not zero. The lower percentage is perhaps because of men’s greater power to fight off the potential …show more content…
Victim blaming is exactly the reason why there are so many rapists out there who get away so easily with the crime they have committed. Women in India was raped and killed and all that was said was how it was their fault because of their revealing outfits and how they were out late at night. Blaming the victim will only release the man who committed the violence from the responsibility for what he has done. Other people may blame the victim so that they feel secure themselves: “She got raped because she walked alone after midnight. My daughter would never do that since her curfew is 9pm, so rape won’t happen to her.” Parents often say this in order to comfort themselves that their children will never become a victim of sexual abuse, but you may never know the real horror until it happens to one of your